Philosophy of the encounter: later writings, 1978-87
"In the late 1970s and 1980s, Louis Althusser endured a period of intense mental instability during which he murdered his wife and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Spanning this deeply troubling period, this fourth and final volume of political and philosophical writings reveals Althusser wrestling in a creative and unorthodox fashion with a whole series of theoretical problems to produce some of his very finest work. In his profound exploration of questions of determinism and contingen…
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- Full title :Philosophy of the encounter : later writings, 1978-87 / Louis Althusser ; edited by François Matheron and Oliver Corpet ; translated with an introduction by G.M. Goshgarian.
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"In the late 1970s and 1980s, Louis Althusser endured a period of intense mental instability during which he murdered his wife and was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Spanning this deeply troubling period, this fourth and final volume of political and philosophical writings reveals Althusser wrestling in a creative and unorthodox fashion with a whole series of theoretical problems to produce some of his very finest work. In his profound exploration of questions of determinism and contingency, Althusser developed a "philosophy of the encounter," which he links to a hidden and subterranean tradition in the history of Western thought which stretches from Epicurus through Spinoza and Machiavelli to Marx, Derrida and Heidegger"--
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- Publication Date:©2006
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Verso
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2006
Notes
"The material in this collection was first published in Sur la philosophie © Gallimard, 1993, and Écrits philosophiques et politiques, Vol. 1, ed. François Matheron © Stock/Imec, 1994."
The Physical Object
- Description:l, 299 pages ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:184467553X, 1844670694, 9781844675531, 9781844670697
- oclc:ocm70174874
- LC Classification:B809.8
- Dewey Decimal:194
Table of Contents
Note on the French texts -- List of abbreviations -- Translator's introduction -- Letter to Merab Mardashvili -- Marx in his limits -- The underground current of the materialism of the encounter -- Correspondence about 'philosophy and Marxism' -- Philosophy and Marxism -- Portrait of the materialist philosopher.
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